Saturday, March 21, 2015

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today? Israel. Violating the rights of Palestinian women.

At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW ends its annual meeting on Friday, March 20 by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women’s rights – Israel.

Not Syria. Where government forces routinely employ rape and other sexual violence and torture against women as a tactic of war. Where in 2014 the Assad regime starved, tortured and killed at least 24,000 civilians, and three million people – mostly women and children – are refugees.

Not Saudi Arabia. Where women are physically punished if not wearing compulsory clothing, are almost entirely excluded from political life, cannot drive, cannot travel without a male relative, receive half the inheritance of their brothers, and where their testimony counts for half that of a man’s.

Not Sudan. Where domestic violence is not prohibited. There is no minimum age for “consensual” sex. The legal age of marriage for girls is ten. 88% of women under 50 have undergone female genital mutilation. And women are denied equal rights in marriage, inheritance and divorce.

Not Iran. Where every woman who registered as a presidential candidate in the last election was disqualified. “Adultery” is punishable by death by stoning. Women who fight back against rapists and kill their attackers are executed. The constitution bars female judges. And women must obtain the consent of their husbands to work outside the home.

In fact, not only is there no possibility that the UN Commission on the Status of Women will criticize Iran, Iran is an elected member of CSW. Sudan – whose president has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity – is currently a CSW Vice-Chair.

The 2015 CSW resolution on Israel will repeat, as it does every year, that “the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration in the development of their society…”

Not Palestinian men. Not religious edicts and traditions. Not a culture of violence. Not an educational system steeped in rejection of peaceful coexistence and of tolerance.

Instead, the fault for a UN statistic like this one – an average of 17% of Palestinian women are in the labor force as compared to 70% of Palestinian men – lies with the Jewish scapegoat.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was retribution against Israel for daring to support the Likud. And this is what happens when much of the UN councils are now dominated by Islamofascists.

U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is slamming Democrats who skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress earlier this month, saying he doesn’t understand how “Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second.”

“There were some 50 or so Democrats that decided they would boycott (Netanyahu’s) speech. ... I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel along the line of just following their president,” King told Boston Herald Radio yesterday.

“It says this, they’re knee-jerk supporters of the president’s policy,” the seven-term Republican added. “The president’s policies throughout the Middle East have been a disaster. I would say to them, ‘Name a country that we have better relations with today that we had when Barack Obama took office.’”

When asked by hosts Adriana Cohen and Tom Shattuck if he felt anti-Semitism led some Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s speech, King said, “I see it growing.”

“It’s a phenomenon that I did not expect to see in post-World War II. ... Anti-Semitism is a component of this and just plain liberalism is another component,” King said. “I mean, the president wants the world to be (the way) he myopically believes it is. You have to be a realist.”

Anti-semitism is certainly still a problem everywhere, and those Democrats, Jewish or otherwise, who boycotted the speech, are failing to combat it by staying away from a speech that's meant to help them.

Friday, March 20, 2015

IS THERE A FORM OF DEVIANCY THAT THE LEFT WON'T SUPPORT? EVIDENTLY NOT:

A Democratic bill unveiled this week would allow former convicted felons released from prison to vote in federal elections. The measure would create a uniform federal standard applicable to ex-felons who are no longer in prison. It would not apply to state elections. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and lead sponsor of the bill, said it would help former criminal offenders reintegrate into civil society. He also noted that preventing former prisoners from voting disproportionately affects racial minorities. Nearly six million Americans cannot vote because of a felony conviction.

Following Obama’s warning that the United States would “reassess” its relationship with Israel, the administration is not only reconsidering the diplomatic cover it has long given Israel at the United Nations but is also looking at a range of other possibilities to put pressure on its historically close ally, U.S. officials said. Those could include becoming less active in protecting Israel in international forums and finding new ways to reinforce the message of U.S. opposition to Jewish settlement expansion.

As internal discussions proceeded on Friday, the White House appeared in no rush to lower the temperature in the worst U.S.-Israeli crisis in decades, sparked by Netanyahu’s campaign declaration that there would be no Palestinian state on his watch.

WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF THE WORST USA-ISRAELI CRISIS EVER BECAUSE THE ISRAELI ELECTION DID NOT GO THE WAY OBAMA WANTED IT TO GO.

THAT ESSENTIALLY MEANS OBAMA IS DISRESPECTING THE WILL ND WISHES OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE,

IT MEANS THAT OBAMA ONLY HAS ISRAEL'S BACK IF ISRAEL DOES OBAMA'S BIDDING.

BUT REMEMBER, MOST OF THE CONGRESS AND MOST AMERICANS AGREE WITH ISRAEL AND DO NOT SUPPORT OBAMA ON THIS ISSUE, OR ON HOW OBAMA IS HANDLING THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM.

I EXPECT OBAMA TO UNLEASH A TORRENT OF ALINSKYITE TACTICS AGAINST BIBI AND ISRAEL.

AND THE MEDIA WILL PLAY ALONG.

UNTIL A BRAVE BIGTIME DEMOCRAT RISES HIS VOICE AND ASKS OBAMA IS HE HAS NO SHAME.

IS THERE ONE WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO JOIN BOB MENENDEZ IN DIRECTLY CRITICIZING OBAMA ON HIS IRAN AND ISRFAEL OLICY?

WILL SCHUMER? WILL FEINSTEIN? WILL OMALLEY OR WEBB OR WARREN? WILL BILL CLINTON?

I DON'T EXPECT ANY OF THEM TO:

THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DOJ'S MENENDEZ INVESTIGATION.

The Justice Department is defending former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a motion to subpoena her private emails under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). “Such action is unnecessary and inappropriate under FOIA,” DOJ officials wrote in a legal briefing filed Thursday. Officials were responding to a case launched by Larry Klayman, the founder of the conservative watchdog group Freedom Watch. Klayman is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to subpoena Clinton’s computer server where she housed the private email address she used while serving in the State Department.

Clinton has turned over 55,000 pages of emails that she believed could be considered official government communications, but she deleted 30,000 emails that she considered to be personal. The Justice Department describes Klayman’s call for a subpoena as “speculation” in its brief. “Plaintiff provides no basis, beyond sheer speculation, to believe that former Secretary Clinton withheld any work-related emails from those provided to the Department of State,” the agency says.

The filing, first reported by Politico, is the first time that the Justice Department has addressed the government’s role in accounting for Clinton’s private emails.

HILLARY CLAIMS SHE DELETED HER PERSONAL EMAIL.

IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN THE ONLY THINGS LEFT ON THE SERVER ARE OFFICIAL EMAILS, AND THEREFORE SHE HAS NO REASON NOT TO HAND IT OVER
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THE FACT THAT THE DOJ IS DEFENDING HER MEANS THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNOWS THERE MUST BE NASTY CRAP ON THE SERVER AND THEY WANT TO KEEP IT OUT OF VIEW.

THE FACT THAT HILLARY ONLY HANDED-OVER PRINT-OUTD OF THE EMAILS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT ALSO PROVES SHE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE; BY DELIBERATELY NOT GIVING THE ELECTRONIC/DIGITAL FILES SHE PREVENTS SEARCHING AND LOOKING FOR EMBEDDED THINGS AND PROOF THINSG MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALTERED.

I THINK HILLARY WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO THESE EXTREME MEASURES -

USING A NON .GOV ACCOUNT,

HAVING IT ON A PRIVATE SERVER,

DELETING 30,000 EMAILS,

PRINTING OUT 30,000 EMAILS

- UNLESS WHAT SHE HAD TO HIDE WAS INCREDIBLY INCRIMINATION, PROBABLY TREASONOUS.

SHE DESERVES TO BE RAKES OVER THE COALS, INTERROGATED, INDICTED, TRIED, CONVICTED - AND EXECUTED FOR TREASON.

(Reuters) - Islamic State has published a video purporting to show the beheading of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq by militants who threatened to kill "dozens" more of those being held captive.

(Reuters) - At least 46 people were killed when four suicide bombers blew themselves up in two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa during Friday prayers, security and medical sources told Reuters.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Obama officials must now decide whether more international pressure on Israel can help bring a conservative Netanyahu-led government back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians — or whether such pressure would simply provoke a defiant reaction, as some fear.

Obama has other diplomatic options. He could expend less political capital to oppose growing momentum within the European Union to impose sanctions on Israel for its settlement activity.

More provocative to Israel would be any softening of Obama’s opposition to Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court, which the Palestinian Authority will formally join on April 1. Under a law passed by Congress, any Palestinian bid to bring war crimes charges against Israel at the court will automatically sever America’s $400 million in annual aid to the Palestinian Authority, although some experts suggested Obama could find indirect ways to continue some funding — even if only to prevent a dangerous collapse of the Palestinian governing body.

In other words, he'd be fine with the PLO making war crimes accusations? Sigh. Very galling if so. As will any attempt made to let the PLO continue to rob money from taxpayers. Thank goodness if the Israeli government won't just sit around waiting for this scenario to actually happen, and it's fair to guess they won't.

So the rumors last month were true: Six thousand centrifuges will continue to spin, which is supposedly a great victory for the U.S. since it would mean — assuming Iran isn’t covertly operating even more centrifuges under the UN’s nose — that Iran would need a solid year to “break out” and refine enough uranium to power a nuclear bomb. Which means Barack Obama would have a year to prepare and execute a U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities to stop them.

[Six thousand is] less than the 10,000 such machines Tehran now runs, yet substantially more than the 500 to 1,500 that Washington originally wanted as a ceiling. Only a year ago, U.S. officials floated 4,000 as a possible compromise…

It’s unclear how complete the draft agreement is. Iran’s deeply buried underground enrichment plant remains a problem, officials said, with Washington demanding the facility be repurposed and Tehran insisting it be able to run hundreds of centrifuges there. Iran says it wants to use the machines for scientific research; the Americans fear they could be quickly retooled for enrichment…

Any March framework agreement is unlikely to constrain Iran’s missile program, which the United States believes may ultimately be aimed at creating delivery systems for nuclear warheads. Diplomats say that as the talks move to deadline, the Iranians continue to insist that missile curbs are not up for discussion…

After the deal expires [in 15-20 years], Iran could theoretically ramp up enrichment to whatever level or volume it wants.

So Iran gets to keep enriching, maybe gets to keep using its heavily fortified Fordow facility, gets to keep perfecting its ICBMs while all of this is happening, and then is free to get crazy with the nuclear cheez whiz in 15 years — and amid all this, a variety of American and international sanctions would be gradually relaxed. In return for all that, the U.S. gets a handful of magic beans.

BBC: The public prosecutor in Brazil has formally charged the treasurer of the governing Workers' Party, Joao Vaccari, with corruption. Another 26 people were charged in relation to the massive corruption scandal at the state-owned oil company Petrobras. The move comes a day after hundreds of thousands of people protested in cities across Brazil against corruption. Many demanded the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

THE LEFT THERE IS LIKE THE LEFT IN THE OLD USSR AND IN CURRENT RED CHINA: A MASS OF CORRUPTION.

WHY IS THIS ALWAYS THE CASE? SIMPLE:

LEFTISTS ARE ELITIST SCUM WHO THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR.

ON A SMALL SCALE THIS LEADS TO LEAR JET LIBERALS LECTURING US ABOUT THE IMPENDING GLOBAL CLIMATE CATASTROPHE.

ON A LARGE SCALE IT IS RED CHINA.

STATIST REGIME LEADS TO BIGGER GOVERNMENT ND MORE OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL.

THIS IS A MAJOR REASON WHY I BECAME A SMALL GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVE: THE SMALLER THE GOVERNMENT THE LESS THERE IS TO STEAL

COMBINED WITH A FLAT TAX, AND WE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE AT A PRETTY HONEST GOVERNMENT AGAIN...

Mr Barzani was clearly furious that the Shia militias - as well as the administration in IS-held areas - were being paid by the government in Baghdad while it was withholding budget funds from Kurdistan and its Peshmerga forces battling IS, the BBC's Jim Muir in northern Iraq says. "They [Iraq's government] are paying Mosul, they are paying Anbar [province], which are under the control of ISIS. Why aren't they paying Kurdistan, who is an ally? We are fighting a common enemy, how come we are not getting the appropriate support?" The central government in Iraq has not been funding Kurdish areas in the north because of an oil production row.

IT'S WAY PAST TIME WE SUPPORTED AN INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN - TAKING PARTS OF IRA AND SYRIA NOW, AND IRAN LATER...

While the Likud's won the election, the Wash. Free Beacon says that One Voice, the group that tried to influence the Israeli election, still gets funding from the US government:

A group that is working to influence the Israeli elections is currently receiving funding from the U.S. Department of State, according to public records and statements from the organization.

The Abraham Fund Initiatives, which is leading an effort to increase Arab voter turnout for the elections on Tuesday, received a $98,000 grant from the State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative in September, the group said on Tuesday. The grant is funded through December 2015.

The State Department’s funding process came under scrutiny in January, after the Free Beacon reported that the nonprofit group OneVoice—which is involved in a similar initiative to increase voter turnout among left-leaning voters—had received grants from the agency. The OneVoice grant ended at the end of November, before the Israeli elections were announced, according to the State Department.

However, a bipartisan Senate committee is currently investigating whether any of the government funding received by OneVoice was later used for election-related activities.

Aaron Klein, an Israeli journalist, first reported on the Abraham Fund’s Arab get-out-the-vote initiative last week, and noted that the group had received State Department funding in the past. That prior grant for $999,000 expired in 2013.

Thank goodness this whole scam was exposed before it could do any damage.

In 1999, he [HERZOG] was also investigated in the 'Amutot Barak' scandal (a scandal involving allegations that the party funding law was violated), but maintained his silence, similar to the American "pleading the 5th".[5] The Attorney General, therefore, decided to close the case against him due to lack of evidence.

Today's the fateful day where once again, Israel has to go to vote in elections. I've already cast my vote for Likud, and hope it'll help.

Netanyahu's said on the eve of the election that he rules out a PLO state because there's every chance it could lead to Iran and ISIS penetrating into the region:

Netanyahu explained that during his tenure, he has refused to “give in” to international organizations and hostile states that have demanded Israel retreat to its 1967 borders—a position which many have deemed militarily indefensible. “We stood fast against huge pressure, and we will continue to do so,” he added.

Last week, Netanyahu expressed worry that a future Palestinian state, governed by its current leadership, would ultimately end up being heavily influenced by state sponsors of terror such as Iran or Sunni jihadi terrorist groups like the Islamic State.

“Any evacuated territory would fall into the hands of Islamic extremism and terror organizations supported by Iran. Therefore, there will be no concessions and no withdrawals. It is simply irrelevant,” the Israeli Prime Minister told a Likud Party rally last week.

The “two-state solution” for peace—which is the only platform largely supported by the international community—has shown to be a complete failure in securing peace for both Israel and the Palestinian people.

So let's hope all voting today understand the seriousness of the issue, and that they won't vote for Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu party if they're willing to join a left-wing coalition.

As Israeli voters head to the ballot boxes to elect their new representatives, Palestinians say they are preparing for another war with Israel.

The preparations came even as US Secretary of State John Kerry and some Israeli candidates, especially Zionist Camp leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, continue to talk about the need to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process after the election.

For some Palestinians, the election is not about removing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu from power. Rather, it is about removing Israel from the face of the earth and replacing it with an Islamist empire.

The next Israeli government will face a two-pronged attack on the Palestinian front – one from the Gaza Strip, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they have just completed preparations for the next conflict with Israel, and another from the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority (PA) says it is determined to pursue its “diplomatic war” against Israel in the international arena.

You can be sure it makes little difference who wins the election this time; the PLO is laying out the groundswork for another jihad against Israel. This is becoming a very dangerous time.

Throughout this short and ugly election campaign, Herzog and Livni have purposely flown under the public's radar. Zionist Union strategists have particularly tried to hide Livni, who once told ABC News that a Palestinian who attacks IDF soldiers is not a terrorist. This is similar to a statement made by a spokesperson for the Joint Arab List, which has turned into a natural partner for the Zionist Union.

If the Labor party is elected in these next two days, it'll be truly awful, if that's how this awful woman thinks.

Organizers of the nationalist rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square estimated that 100,000 people are attending it.

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett played the guitar and sang “Jerusalem of Gold” to the vast crowd, urging it to sing along, in protest of the decision by the Elections Committee not to allow artists to perform at the rally.

He told the crowd that the elections can be about security, and also about the price of living, because the Left does not have a monopoly on social issues. “There is no need to divide the Land of Israel to lower the price of cheese,” he said.

Netanyahu was also, of course, a prime speaker at this rally and did well too. What's been seen today is very impressive, and let's hope it translates into success at the ballot box too on Tuesday.